Coronavirus outbreak in the Qasd regions: the specter of a health disaster

Hasakah | Areas controlled by the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in northeast Syria are witnessing a notable increase in the number of infections and deaths from the Coronavirus, with growing public fear about the spread of the disease outbreak and loss of control over it. With most of the hospitals, medical centers and dispensaries out of government control in those areas, and a large part of them destroyed by the bombardment of the “international coalition” plane, medical services are almost non-existent, which can herald a health catastrophe.

The statistics issued by the Self-Administration Health Authority show a clear increase in the number of injured during the last month, with the beginning of the implementation of special measures to limit this increase. According to statistics, in just one month, twice as many were recorded in those regions since the virus outbreak last April. Between April and early October, the “autonomous” regions recorded 1,680 wounded and 67 killed, bringing the number to 5,247 wounded and 135 dead earlier this month. The opposition “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” questions these statistics, stressing that the actual figures are much higher, and that there is a large outbreak of the virus, especially in Ain Al-Arab (Kobani). “The Observatory” transmits what it calls reliable medical sources that “the number of injuries in” own “areas exceeded 20,000 confirmed cases, of which at least 605 died and 1,900 were cured. It showed that” the injuries were concentrated in Ain Al -Arab, which registered more than 6,200 injured, with more than 13,500 injured in Hasaka, Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and its countryside. “It describes the reality of the health sector in” own “areas as” tragic and catastrophic, with the impossibility of carrying out tests and swabs for symptomatic carriers of the virus and to record dozens of deaths due to lack of necessary medical attention. ”

The infection counter registered twice as much in a month as since the virus began

The “Autonomous Administration” had taken measures, including the imposition of a partial or total ban in some areas, in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus, but did not receive the required response from the population. On October 29, the Autonomous Community imposed a partial ban on all areas of its control in Syria, from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m., but it was not enforced. It also approved “to impose a complete closure of the Al-Malikiyah district and its villages in the Hasaka camp for a period of 14 days, starting last Friday, due to the high rate of injuries there. According to civilian sources from Maliki, with whom “Al-Akhbar” contacted them, that “the first day witnessed an almost total commitment of the population”, noting that “a state of great anxiety and fear experienced by the population, in light of the daily death record among their ranks, and the appearance of virus symptoms in a large number of them. ”The sources considered that the“ lack of “subjectivity” in the application of the partial prohibition measures has caused a gradual increase in the number of wounded. The “I” faces difficulties in applying the blockade measures due to the difficult economic and living situation that the population lives, and their need for daily work to ensure their livelihood, in light of the continuous blockade and the US and Western sanctions on the country. The lack of medical services threatens a health catastrophe in the tens of thousands, if large numbers of injuries and deaths continue.

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